Katie and Dermot talked us into joining them in the Mountain town of Spindleruv Mlyn (still don't know how to pronounce it). We were jam packed (as you could see in Chris' blog pics) with Chris and my stuff jam packed in the boot and Katie and Dermot packed like sardines amongst their bags for the 2 hour ride up. Katie and I wanted to be a little more adventurous and see some of the smaller towns so we started out with the SatNav on "avoid toll roads" The boys kept their mouths shut until we came upon a slight hitch...the bridge that British Emily was persistently telling us to cross was non existent. I'm sure it was at one time, but there was no way for vehicles, such as our Clio III to cross and no alternative in sight.
The only other hang up with had along the way, besides Czech highway drivers only passing as high speeds up and around a blind corner into oncoming traffic where no one slows down, they simply just skim into place as though no lives were in danger...so other than that, we were sitting in traffic for about 20 minutes, waiting for the railroad crossing arms to raise since there was clearly no train approaching. Finally two men volunteered to raise the arms manually to allow traffic to cross on both directions. It was slow going, but nothing I've ever experienced before!
Once in SM, we were able to stay at the same hotel as K&D, which meant many, many, MANY games of Catan. We are changing up the rules all the time, really spicing things up. One of the spicier ways to play is to share rose champagne (two bottles) of 13% alcohol between two light weight ladies...that is the moment team testosterone took the lead in wins...but we sure had fun!
We went snow tubing, which turned out to be more ice tubing at night, the first night! So much fun!
Then we fed our hungry appetites with some lovely hand tossed pizzas...
Room with a view...
The prince getting his beauty sleep. Chris really took time to relax and catch up on his sleep...or at least he tried. He stayed up late many nights (all two of them) watching the winter olympics...though covered in Czech, we were still able to see some American wins!
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